Endorsements
“Mr. Goossen, through M & A Capital Corp., has been engaged to assist us with our corporate finance activities. As part of this mandate, he arranged for our participation in the “MedTech Insight ‘Investment in Innovation’ Conference held in Irvine,CA. Mr. Goossen did an excellent job of presenting from the podium, providing a lucid and compelling explanation of our company background, growth potential and key products. I have full confidence in recommending Mr. Goossen highly as a professional public speaker who is able to represent a company and its products to a sophisticated medical technology audience.”
Marc Morin, President & CEO, Medsurge Medical Products Corp.
“M & A, in conjunction with its US affiliate, introduced RoomLinX to a variety of financiers and investors in New York City. As a result of the efforts of M & A and its NYC affiliate an agreement was consummated with a group with both financing capabilities and majority control of an over the counter bulletin board (OTC BB) company. A reverse merger transaction was subsequently negotiated between this group and RoomLinX which resulted in the listing of the shares of RoomLinX on the OTC BB along with a simultaneous initial capital raise of approximately US$1 million. I have no hesitation in recommending Rick both for his integrity, fairness and reasonableness in his business dealings and for his professional expertise.”
Robert Lunde, CEO, RoomLinX, Inc.,
These are endorsements of Rick Goossen and his book, The Practice of Entrepreneurial Thinking and Learning (2006)
“Rick Goossen is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur! He lives it, breathes it, and now tells it like it is! This book is essential reading for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, but is the must-read book for aspiring or practicing entrepreneurs. In an ever more crowded bookshelf on the subject, this book stands out because Rick Goossen stands out as the real thing!”
Dr. Richard W. Oliver is a CEO, an entrepreneur, a business school professor at Cornell and Vanderbilt universities, has served on six corporate boards and is author of six management books including The Shape of Things to Come: 7 Imperatives for Winning in the New World of Business and The Biotech Age: The Business of Biotech and How to Profit from It.
“Rick Goossen has studied entrepreneurship by practising it in North America, and by living among some of the world’s most instinctive entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. He has also thought hard about its nature, and this book reflects both those analyses and those experiences.”
Gordon Redding is Director, Euro Asian Research Centre, INSEAD, France, Professor Emeritus at the University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, U.K.; he is the author of 10 books, including The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism, and over 100 research papers.
“If you want to achieve enduring success in business and in life, and you want to do it your way, you must read this book. Rick Goossen is an entrepreneur who is constantly driven to create new business ideas. And he has an amazing track record of success, as a lawyer, journalist, author, university teacher, and corporate financier. In this book, he blends his own unique insights with the wisdom of the world’s foremost experts on entrepreneurship to show others how to take the world by storm.”
Michael Alexander is the author of How to Inherit Money (HarperCollins). A business consultant, media commentator, and professional public speaker, Mr. Alexander holds law degrees from Columbia University and the University of Toronto and has advised a wide range of individual and corporate clients on issues relating to wealth preservation.
“Rick Goossen is uniquely qualified to author a book on entrepreneurship. He has a phenomenal record as an entrepreneur and corporate financier. However, he is also a scholar and university professor. In addition to Rick’s own experience, he also builds into the book the expertise of some of the world’s foremost entrepreneurs. While this book will be valuable for any aspiring entrepreneur, it is absolutely essential reading for students studying entrepreneurship in business schools across North America.”
Kevin G. Sawatsky is a lawyer, businessman, professor, and currently the Dean of the School of Business at Trinity Western University, one of the fastest growing business schools in Canada.
“Rick Goossen has compiled the great thinking of entrepreneurship experts in a handy volume that should be read by every entrepreneur looking to grow and finance a company on Wall Street.”
Terry Murphy is Managing Director of Rodman & Renshaw, an LLC Wall Street boutique investment banking firm that has provided over $1 billion in financing to high-growth companies over the past three years.
“The entrepreneurship book that Rick Goossen proposes should take the industry by storm, because it uniquely integrates the wisdom of seminal thinkers and practitioners of entrepreneurship. As Editor of the Journal of Business Strategy and strategic management professor, Rick has the unique experience to integrate and synthesize wisdom from the greatest entrepreneurship thinkers of all time. The need for this book has existed for years and, thus, it should be widely adopted in both entrepreneurship and strategic management courses as supportive reading material. Very likely, this book will also become popular reading for millions of entrepreneurs across the globe.”
Dr. Fred David is author of the best-selling Strategic Management textbook published in seven languages by Prentice Hall. As author of more than 150 articles and cases and professor of strategic management at Francis Marion University, Dr. David assists companies around the world in strategic planning.